"However, WIPB continued producing ""The Joy of Painting"" until the show's ending in 1994. The 31st and final season of ""The Joy of Painting"" aired on PBS in 1994, before the death of Bob Ross on July 4, 1995. As part of its launch of Twitch Creative, Twitch.tv streamed every episode of ""The Joy of Painting"" over a nine-day period starting on October 29, 2015, what would have been Ross' 73rd birthday. Twitch reported that 5.6 million viewers watched the marathon, and due to its popularity, created a weekly rebroadcast of all 31 seasons of ""The Joy of Painting"" to"
"Bob Ross Robert Norman Ross (October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995) was an American painter, art instructor, and television host. He was the creator and host of ""The Joy of Painting"", an instructional television program that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS in the United States, and also aired in Canada, Latin America, and Europe. Ross went from being a public television personality in the 1980s and 1990s to being an Internet celebrity in the 21st century, becoming popular with fans on YouTube and many other websites after his death. Ross was born in Daytona Beach, Florida, to"
"is protective of his intellectual property and his privacy to this day. Ross was diagnosed with lymphoma in the spring of 1994, which eventually forced him to retire; the final episode of ""The Joy of Painting"" aired on May 17, 1994. He died at the age of 52 on July 4, 1995. His remains are interred at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Gotha, Florida, under a plaque marked: ""Bob Ross; Television Artist"". Ross kept his diagnosis a secret from the general public, and his lymphoma was not known outside of his circle of family and friends until after his death. Since"
"throughout his career. The origins of the TV show, ""The Joy of Painting"", are unclear. It was filmed at the studio of the PBS station WIPB in Muncie, Indiana. The show ran from January 11, 1983 to May 17, 1994, but reruns continue to appear in many broadcast areas and countries, including the non-commercial digital subchannel network Create. During each half-hour segment, Ross would instruct viewers in oil painting using a quick-study technique from the imagination that used a limited palette of paints and broke down the process into simple steps. Art critic Mira Schor compared him to Fred Rogers,"
"century, and was used by Frans Hals, Diego Velázquez, Caravaggio, Paul Cezanne, John Singer Sargent, and Claude Monet, among many others. Bill Alexander (painter) William Alexander (2 April 1915 – 24 January 1997; born ""Wilhelm Alexander"") known as Bill Alexander on his TV show; was a German painter, art instructor, and television host. He was the creator and host of ""The Magic of Oil Painting"" (1974–82) television series that ran on PBS in the United States. He wrote ""The Art of Bill Alexander"" (1987–95), a series of books on wet-on-wet oil painting. He also taught the television painter Bob Ross"
"of the letter ""g"" with a landscape in the background. In 2015, Bob Ross was included in a commercial for HGTV Sherwin-Williams paint along with Leonardo da Vinci, Andy Warhol, Michelangelo and Vincent van Gogh. As part of the launch of Twitch Creative, Twitch.tv hosted a nine-day marathon of Bob Ross' ""The Joy of Painting"" series which started on October 29, 2015 in commemoration of what would have been his 73rd birthday. Twitch reported that 5.6 million viewers watched the marathon, and due to its popularity, created a weekly rebroadcast with one season of ""The Joy of Painting"" to air"
"Jon Gnagy Jon Gnagy (January 13, 1907 – March 7, 1981) was a self-taught artist most remembered for being America's original television art instructor, hosting ""You Are an Artist"", which began on the NBC network and included analysis of paintings from the Museum of Modern Art, and his later syndicated Learn to Draw series. As of 1986, over fifteen million of Gnagy's drawing kits had been sold. The Philadelphia-based Martin F. Weber Company still manufactures Gnagy's drawing kits. Gnagy also worked on book illustrations including ""The Coit Fishing Pole Club Beginner's Book of Fishing "" and ""The Nature of Things"""
"episode, Ross painted a third, more detailed version for inclusion in his instructional books. All three versions were then donated to various PBS stations. The first season of ""The Joy of Painting"" aired on many PBS stations across the east coast, but the audience was small. And the quality of the audio and video was so poor, that the first season may never air again. Bob would have to look for a new home on public television. This time, at WIPB in Muncie, Indiana. Now with a national audience, ""The Joy of Painting"" was produced by WIPB in Muncie, Indiana."
"in ""Women's Home Companion"", ""Cosmopolitan"", ""American Artist"", North Light, ""Esquire"", the Chicago Tribune Magazine, ""Picture Post"", ""Southwest Art"" and in some 750 stories in ""The Saturday Evening Post"". He was featured in the 1976 television series ""Journey into Art with Ben Stahl"", 26 half-hour programs consisting of lectures and painting demonstrations by the artist. Stahl was one of the founding faculty for the Famous Artists School. In 1986, he guest-starred on Season 7 of ""The Joy of Painting"" wherein renowned artist Bob Ross referred to him as, ""a fantastic painter. He's one of the best painters in the country."" Stahl"
"with a palette knife, and would always finish with a picture that her viewers could copy. The series extended over four years and was shown extensively abroad. Her oil painting lessons were followed with enthusiasm by housewives, shift workers, and also schoolchildren, many of whom would race home after school to switch on the television set to watch her demonstrate her unusual system of painting. Paintings by Nancy Kominsky (oil on canvas—various sizes 1974-1986) Nancy Kominsky Nancy Circelli Kominsky (born Emanuella Agneta Circelli, 24 September 1915 – 11 March 2011) was an Italian-American artist and television presenter, who found fame"
"of life, his Western Art, and the history of the American West. As an interactive learning center it celebrates and promotes this dream for all generations."" One month before Fred's death he was featured on KOMO TV in a segment of Eric's Heroes - it was a very touching tribute to a man who lived every minute to the fullest. Fred Oldfield suffered in his last couple of years with Macular Degeneration but refused to give up on life and continued to paint everyday until his death ~ a career and a passion for over 70 years! Fred's Family Fred"
"Bill Alexander (painter) William Alexander (2 April 1915 – 24 January 1997; born ""Wilhelm Alexander"") known as Bill Alexander on his TV show; was a German painter, art instructor, and television host. He was the creator and host of ""The Magic of Oil Painting"" (1974–82) television series that ran on PBS in the United States. He wrote ""The Art of Bill Alexander"" (1987–95), a series of books on wet-on-wet oil painting. He also taught the television painter Bob Ross the wet-on-wet technique. Bill Alexander was born in East Prussia, but his family fled to Berlin during World War I. Apprenticed"
"also has on display Dent's paintings of Stevie Wonder and Jimi Hendrix, and in one episode acquired a portrait of John Lennon painted by Dent. Denny Dent Dennis E. ""Denny"" Dent (April 5, 1948 – March 29, 2004) was an American speed painter who was known for his frenetic performances as he painted large portraits of celebrities. Dent was born in Oakland, California to a family of artists and graduated from Oakland High School. ""My grandfather was ambidextrous,"" he says, giving a nod to the gene pool for his two-fisted talents, ""a cabinetmaker and an artist. My mother was a"
"until 1987, after the death of his friend and collaborator Brion Gysin. For the next and last 10 years of his life, he presented his paintings and drawings at museums and galleries worldwide. Burroughs had one child, William S. Burroughs Jr. (1947–1981), with his second wife Joan Vollmer. William Burroughs died at his home in Lawrence, Kansas, after suffering a heart attack in 1997. Burroughs was born in 1914, the younger of two sons born to Mortimer Perry Burroughs (June 16, 1885 – January 5, 1965) and Laura Hammon Lee (August 5, 1888 – October 20, 1970). His was a"
"on television in the United States from the early 1950s throughout the 1960s on his program, ""Learn to Draw"", and his popular art kits are still available. His son-in-law, Thaddeus Seymour, was president of Rollins College from 1978-90. Author and illustrator Richard Egielski, in the October 2011 issue of ""BookPage,"" described Gnagy as his childhood hero, writing, ""I drew along with him every week."" Jon Gnagy Jon Gnagy (January 13, 1907 – March 7, 1981) was a self-taught artist most remembered for being America's original television art instructor, hosting ""You Are an Artist"", which began on the NBC network and"
"to create the second copy—the one viewers actually watched him paint. After filming the episode, Ross painted a third, more detailed version for inclusion in his instructional books. Ross dedicated the first episode of the second season of ""The Joy of Painting"" to Bill Alexander, explaining that ""years ago, Bill taught me this fantastic [wet-on-wet] technique, and I feel as though he gave me a precious gift, and I'd like to share that gift with you [the viewer]"". As Ross's popularity grew, his relationship with Alexander became increasingly strained. ""He betrayed me,"" Alexander told the ""New York Times"" in 1991."
"painting. Ross and Ridge's marriage ended in divorce in 1977. Ross and his second wife, Jane, had no children together. In 1992, Jane died from cancer. In 1995, two months before his death, Ross remarried for a third time to Lynda Brown. Ross is known to have been very secretive about his life and had a great liking for privacy, with only a tight circle of friends. Some of only a few interviews with his close-knit circle of friends and his family can be found in the 2011 PBS documentary ""Bob Ross: The Happy Painter"". His company, Bob Ross Inc.,"
"Joe moved to California to pursue his work in television and films. In 1959, he married Wanda Slye who preceded him in death in 1977. De Santis retired to Provo, Utah in 1978 to be close to family, and resided there until his death in 1989. Along with sculpting, he contributed regularly to the activities of the Provo Eldred Center. He was a heavy smoker for much of his life and suffered from chronic bronchitis and borderline emphysema; he died in 1989 at the age of eighty of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Offbeat Trivia: In the liner notes to Frank"
"sun. “Color is then unlimited, as the sun is ever changing,” he said. A biography titled ""Richard Earl Thompson, American Impressionist: A Prophetic Odyssey in Paint"" was published in 1982 and written by art historian Patricia Jobe Pierce. During the summer of 1990 a film crew visited his summer home in northern Wisconsin to film his life, loves, painting, and philosophy. Unfortunately, he did not live to see the film because he died from pancreatic cancer on August 6, 1991. The film is titled ""American Impressionist, Richard Earl Thompson"" from the Holiday Video Library, a division of Finley Holiday Films."
"In 1986, PBS made a documentary about him called ""Charles Bragg - One of a Kind."" One of Bragg's lithographs, ""The Screen Goddess"", is featured prominently in the opening scene of the 1992 Robert Altman film, ""The Player."" He has published and his work has been featured in books. Bragg has won many awards, including the Gold Medal for the National Society of Illustrators as well as the Award of Merit from the Art Directors Guild of New York. Bragg lived in Beverly Hills. He had two children and died on January 9, 2017 at the age of 85. Charles"
"in the house to the end of his life. It was revealed that, toward the end of his life, de Kooning had begun to lose his memory in the late 1980s and had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease for some time. This revelation has initiated considerable debate among scholars and critics about how responsible de Kooning was for the creation of his late work. Succumbing to the progression of his disease, de Kooning painted his final works in 1991. He died in 1997 at the age of 93 and was cremated. Elaine had admired Willem's artwork before meeting him; in"
"was a talented painter with works appearing in exhibitions throughout the United States, including the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Society of Illustrators annual show in New York. He made his mark in animation with the 1982 Emmy Award-winning Christmas special, ""Ziggy's Gift"", which was released on VHS video in 2002 and DVD in 2005. He received the Purchase award in the Butler Institute of American Art's annual exhibition. Wilson was a survivor of lung cancer. He died in his sleep on the night of September 16, 2011 of pneumonia at a Cincinnati hospital. He was 80. Tom Wilson"
"other winners: Igor Evans (a schoolboy), Leslie John Hawkins (an apprentice optician), Egbert John Nuttall (an architect), and William Stevens (a ship's officer). Suffering from depression, Annie had treatments at Claremont Mental Hospital for a few months in 1908 and again in 1918. In 1914, she and her husband moved to Serpentine, where Charles became a farmer and fruit grower. Annie died there of cancer in 1926 at the age of 60 and was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery in an unmarked grave. Charles died nine years later, in 1935, and the following year 124 of Annie's paintings were donated to"
"news. The landscapes he painted—typically mountains, lakes, snow, and log cabin scenes—were strongly influenced by his years living in Alaska, where he was stationed for the majority of his Air Force career. He repeatedly stated on the show his belief that everyone had inherent artistic talent and could become an accomplished artist given time, practice, and encouragement, and to this end was often fond of saying, ""We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents."" In 2014, the blog FiveThirtyEight conducted a statistical analysis of the 381 episodes in which Ross painted live, concluding that 91 percent of Ross' paintings"
"Childs never stopped drawing and soon resumed painting, remaining in New York until his death at age 74 in March 1985. Although he exhibited extensively in group shows, Childs was essentially a loner. A renowned curator once called him a ""rogue artist"", one who cannot be defined by a category, a group, or a decade. Often a fusion of abstraction and figuration, at times paralleled by portraiture, his is a body of work rooted in the second half of the 20th century and whose ongoing appeal defies time. Underlying Childs' art is a story of survival – of war, of"
"- this is where his genius draughtsmanship and ability to capture a subject's soul on canvas was stunning and sometimes haunting because he brought out something in a person that was not evident before. Also notable regarding his draughtsmanship was his ability to capture the subject with a minimum of brush strokes or charcoal lines. His work is included in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. He was also the recipient of many distinguished awards, both locally and nationally. He died January 25, 1986 from lung"
"administered by the Stony Brook Foundation, a nonprofit affiliate of Stony Brook University. Regular tours of the house and studio occur from May through October. Museum links Jackson Pollock Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety; he was a major artist of his generation. Regarded as reclusive, he had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. In 1945,"
"canvas or palette. At the end of each episode, Ross was known for saying something akin to, ""So from all of us here, I'd like to wish you happy painting, and God bless, my friend"", and then, the credits roll over a shot of the day's painting, with the show's theme song being heard. Ross created three versions of each painting for each episode of the show. The first, painted prior to taping, sat on an easel, off-camera, and was used by Ross as a template to create the second copy—the one viewers actually watched him paint. After taping the"
"celebration. They were never seen after 1977 and the whereabouts of the two portraits is a mystery now. In the 1980s, his health further deteriorated and aggravated by the presence of kidney stones. Ma did not paint much and there were only two oil paintings produced in 1985. He died in the Queen Mary Hospital on December 8, 1985, aged 58, from the combination of his long ailing lung illness together with complication from a laser kidney stone surgery. He was survived by this mother, his wife and son. Ma's attitude to life: ""Death is most frightening but even more"
"to them."" Fittingly, the painter of crowds was a crowd-pleaser. Davis died of cancer in New York City at the age of 75 in 1978. At the time of his death he was a celebrated figure, with his work included in Bicentennial celebrations two years earlier. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Vestie Davis Vestie Davis (1903 – November 14, 1978) was a self-taught American artist whose works are in many important collections, including those of the American Folk Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. His work was the subject of a monographic"
"1938. Thirty-five years after her death, in 1973, she had her first one-woman exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In the latter years of his life, Eakins' constant companion was the handsome sculptor Samuel Murray, who shared his interest in boxing and bicycling. The evidence suggests the relationship was more emotionally important to Eakins than that with his wife. Throughout his life, Eakins appears to have been drawn to those who were mentally vulnerable and then preyed upon those weaknesses. Several of his students ended their lives in insanity. Eakins died on June 25, 1916, at the age"
"in 1955. The following year, he married Genevieve Baucheron (1926–2011). They had one son together, Frederic. <br> <br> Joseph Hirsch Joseph Hirsch (1910–1981) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher. Social commentary was the backbone of Hirsch's art, especially works depicting civic corruption and racial injustice. His works are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and many other museums. The son of physician Charles S. Hirsch and Fannie Wittenberg, he grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Central High School. He was of"
"the East Coast a fresh, lively aesthetic, reflecting what has been termed a ""radical West Coast style"" that he had continued to develop since his days at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. He participated in several Whitney Museum Annuals and in 1956 was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition “12 Americans” curated by Dorothy Miller. He taught painting and sculpture at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn from 1961 until the time of his death at age 61, and is survived by his wife Anne Arnold, who is also an artist. The dynamism and at"